Word: adrift
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...them acted Catholic. Their parents’ generation had practically abandoned all the traditions that made Catholics Catholic. Their priests and parents, while not giving them the biblical knowledge fostered by Protestant sola scriptura, had also not sufficiently catechized them with the truths of their Catholic tradition. Thus left adrift, there was no way for them to demonstrate their faith in a way that I could appreciate. Unfortunately, my experience in college was much the same...
...British comics The Dandy and The Beano. Even now, after stints as both a Ralph Lauren designer and a Hong Kong-based corporate artist, he has not forgotten his first love: witness the deliciously twisted (and unpublished) comic strip called Cheap Charlie: the Mental Moon, featuring a hapless backpacker adrift in psycho-tropical Thailand...
Performances included Easy Street (starring Chaplin), Fatty and Mabel Adrift (starring Roscoe Arbuckle) and a compilation of Chaplin’s original movie compositions, entitled “The Reel Chaplin.” The films were projected onto a screen on the auditorium’s back wall while the orchestra played in the darkened hall. The experience of silent film with a full live orchestra was especially rare and memorable—emotions mimed by the actors onscreen are further energized by the orchestra’s proximity and musical charge...
...music for Fatty and Mabel Adrift wasn’t composed for the love story, but rather compiled from a variety of sources. Though they didn’t closely match the action in the film, the selections were well coordinated, compiled and whimsical—especially played alongside Fatty and Mabel’s farcical romance...
...with the business of nation-building. Yet Pereira has not been reunited with his sons. Hasan refuses to let them go. He holds them, as he does about 50 others, in orphanages far from their birthplaces. They are part of a lost generation of East Timorese children cut adrift from their parents by civil unrest. The United Nations estimates there are 400 children like Jacinto and Marito scattered in orphanages and homes throughout Indonesia. Despite the intervention of international agencies and repeated requests from parents for their return, many remain under the guardianship of believers like Hasan who want...